A two-door sports car, the CLK-GTR has a carbon fiber body and a 6.9-liter 12-cylinder engine enabling it to go from zero to 124 mph in 9.9 seconds. It has a top speed of 198.4 mph. The car’s intended retail selling price was $2.5 million.

The dealership owner Mr Johnston said that the car had turned out to be “exotic” in the worst possible way. When it was taken off for its first customer drive, the co-owner Ernest Johnston drove the car all of 10 blocks with a prospective buyer when the oil light came on. He added that they had been trying to get it fixed ever since, but the Mercedes folks have refused to stand behind the car as promised in our contract.

The company cannot sell the car in its current condition! It now represents nearly $2 million of scrap metal!

Moreover, the car’s transmission failed to shift properly, the hydraulic jack system failed and the car’s windows came unglued. Mercedes also determined that the car suffered from an oil pressure-related engine failure, the plaintiffs allege, but the company to make any repairs…

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